2-694-066 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Colonial Procession: Arrival of the Canadian Premier (The Hon. Wilfrid Laurier) at Hyde Park Corner', 1897. 'The Canadian premier's carriage was preceded by Canadian troops, and followed by the New South Wales Rifles and Lancers. The Procession is just emerging from Constitution Hill by the great gates of the Arch which are opened only for Royalty. The crowd at this point was, perhaps, the biggest on the route, and stretched away down Grosvenor Place, down Knightsbridge, into Hyde Park (there were thousands of people in the Park who had given up all hope of seeing the Procession, and choked all the streets leading into Piccadilly.' From Sixty Years A Queen: The Story of Her Majesty's Reign, by Sir Herbert Maxwell. [Harmsworth Bros, Limited, London, c1897]